What's up with radio/TV commentator Sean Hannity? Does he suffer from momentary lapses of consciousness?
Barack Obama, on a weeklong mission to engage the Muslim world in something resembling dialogue, gave an interview to France’s Canal Plus TV on June 1. Here are two excerpts, accompanied by Hannity’s commentary from Fox News.
Obama: “If you actually took the number of Muslim Americans, we’d be one of the largest Muslim countries in the world.”
Hannity: “He honors the national day of prayer behind closed doors. Now, on his Middle East apology tour, the president calls the U.S. a ‘Muslim nation.’”
Obama: “We do not consider ourselves a Christian nation, or a Jewish nation, or a Muslim nation. We consider ourselves a nation of citizens, who are bound by ideals.”
Hannity: “The same president who insists the U.S. is not a Christian nation is now calling us a Muslim nation.”
If Obama said “we are not a Christian nation,” he also, by the same utter disregard for context, said “we are not a Muslim nation.” Do you see that, Sean? Sean? Never mind.
This is not to say Obama was totally on the ball either. Obama is almost certainly mistaken about the number of Muslims in the U.S.
The president suggested there are “nearly 7 million” Muslims in America, but the CIA World Fact Book puts the number at 1.8 million — a far cry from Obama’s estimate. But even if 7 million were correct, the U.S. would merely be the 32nd largest “Muslim nation.”
More likely we’re not even Top 50.
Tuesday, June 9, 2009
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